Kickstarter – SpecFicMedia

Episode 4 of SFM Presents: Consumption was recorded LIVE on Google Hangout on 8/26/2013. We’ve got 2 1/2 hours of audio FUN!

Our guest was one of this century’s Renaissance men, Jared Axelrod. Our main topics of discussion: Kickass 2 and Comic Books

Show Notes:

Guest: Jared Axelrod

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Jared’s Commander Cockroach Kickstarter ends 9/20/13! Please check it out!

Also discussed:

Super
Griff the Invisible
3DS and 2DS
Google Chromecast
PBS Youtube shows – The Idea Channel, It\\™s Ok to be Smart & Modern Comic
Gravity Falls
Dazed and Confused
Backyard by Sam Alden
Bandette by Paul Tolbin & Coleen Coover
Rice Boy – Evan Dahm
StrongFemaleProtaganist.com
OhJoySexToy review in comic book form
Phonogram -Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie
Hawkeye – Matt Fraction, David Aja and others – Vol 1:My Life as a Weapon, Vol 2:Little Hits
Rockford\\™s File Comic
Young Avengers – Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie
Asterios Polyp – David Mazzucchelli
Habibi – Craig Thompson
Superior Spiderman (with Doc Oc) Dan Slott & others
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Cerebus – Dave Sim
Fletcher Hanks
I09 article – Mark Millar and Todd McFarlane: Ladies, Comics Aren’t For You

Hosts:

P.G. Holyfield (author of Murder at Avedon Hill and SFM Founder)
Christiana Ellis (too many podcasts to list here, but you can check out all things Christiana at her site).
Chooch (Beyond the Wall Podcast Co-Host)
Vivid Muse (Vivid Musings Blog)

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Email us at consumption at specficmedia dot com
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“Canary in a Coal Mine”

A few years ago I wrote a short story (short for me, in any case, around 8K words) for Matthew Wayne Selznick\\™s The Sovereign Era: Year One anthology. It was called \\Every Breath You Take.\\ It\\™s the story of high school senior Christian Murphy, who has it bad for a foreign exchange student named Stacey… \\˜but in a world where thousands of people are learning they possess unique, incredible powers, what exactly stands in the way of Christian getting what he wants?\\™

Last Fall, Matt did a Kickstarter for his second novel set in this universe, and I offered to write a \\˜sequel\\™ to my first story as a pledge reward for his fans. Matt allowed me to play in his universe once again, and this story became more of a \\˜novelette,\\™ with a word count of nearly 14K. Now that Matt has fulfilled his Kickstarter obligations, we\\™re getting this puppy out as an e-book on Amazon and B&N for $3.99. The name of this novelette? \\Canary in a Coal Mine.\\

It will be available at online retailers on Friday, but if you are an .epub or .mobi consumer, you can pre-order it now for $2.99 until 11:59 PM PST, tomorrow night.

Here are the pre-order links:

https://gumroad.com/l/canary-coal-mine-epub

https://gumroad.com/l/canary-coal-mine-mobi

For that $1.00 off, enter coupon code – sfmfan

So, more about \\˜Canary,\\™ which can be read as a standalone story (although there are characters from the first story that appear in this one as well, so go get \\˜Breath\\™ for 1.99 at Amazon or B&N… it\\™s good)

\\Sovereign Conduct Enforcement Team (S.C.E.T.) investigators Adoette Smith and Joshua Wolff team with a local police officer to investigate what happened at the end of \\˜Breath,\\™ and the disappearance of the potential Sovereign, Stacey Miller

When circumstances bring Adoette\\™s violent, troubled past to the surface, will she be able to utilize her own Sovereign abilities in time to find Stacey?

I had fun with this story, and doing it got me back in the writing mood, in a big way. I hope you enjoy it. And if you enjoy the setting and haven\\™t read Matt Selznick\\™s Sovereign novels, please do!!